1. Review your unit 3 personal assessment of your
psychological, physical, and spiritual well-being.
Reflect on these areas. How did
you score yourself on a scale from 1 to 10 in unit 3? How do you score yourself
now? Has the score changed? Why or why
not?
I was a 6 in unit
3, and now I would rate it a 7 working to be a 10. My physical well-being is not a lot better
because I have not been able to enroll in a gym yet. School is not out so in
the evenings I am not able like I want to walk around the school. I am able however to exercise with my WII and
my walk DVD, which I am doing.
I rated my spiritual well-being in unit 3 as an 8 and not
I rate it as 8.5 because I have been reading more in the mornings and on my
breaks. As I stated before I would not
rate it ever as a 10 because there would be no room for improvement. When you reach the top in spiritual
development where can you go? It is not
like anything physical.
In unit 3 I rated my psychological well-being as a 4
because I was having trouble blogging and I was stressed with other personal
matters. Now I rate psychological
well-being as a 6 and still moving forward.
I have learned so much from the class and it helps me to stay calm by
practicing breathing exercises and subtle mind practices and especially the
loving-kindness. It makes me show more
love and compassion toward others.
Before I was so absorbed in my own problems until I could not see
anything else. It was an awakening!
2. Review the goals and activities you set for
yourself in each area. Have you made
progress toward the goals? Explain.
Goal for exercise was to
replace my WII and get my DVD fixed. I
have replaced my WII and fixed my DVD so now I am able to get up in the
mornings and perform exercises. I have made
progress because I have been walking in the mall and working in my garden, and
performing more physical activities than before.
Spiritually I do meditate on
gratefulness before jumping out of bed every morning. I have also begun to meditate and pray more
at night so that I will not suffer from insomnia. I am not traumatized now, more relaxed.
Psychologically I have
learned that I made mistakes but do not dwell on them, keep moving, forgive and
let it go. I find myself not blaming
others, but making excuses for them for why they reacted the way they did. I also had a goal to have more quiet time and
I have accomplished that, by just sitting in my chair and closing my eyes and
visualize being in a tropical island with peace and tranquility. I am learning to train my mind by practicing
the Subtle Mind, loving-kindness and more prayer and meditation. (Dacher, 2006)
I have made progress on the
loving-kindness, I am a person that normally shows loving-kindness, but I had
some losses in my family, some traumatic things that happened and school has
taken a lot of my time which has made me like a hermit. My family time, social, physical and
spiritual life was suffering.
3.
Have
you implemented the activities you chose for your well-being in each of the
three areas? Explain.
I have made great progress, I have come alive
now. The reason I know I have
implemented the activities because I feel much better about myself and I have
better sleeping habits, and better conversations with my family. I am able to
implement loving-kindness in psychospiritual and spiritual by not being so impatient
and always in a hurry. I participated in a Passover Seder on Good Friday and it
was tremendously spiritual. I learned
about the 7 days of creation being explained in a thought provoking and
spiritual way. The first day of creation
was loving-kindness and Passover always being 14 Nisan according to the Jewish
calendar and teaching.
With my physical area I am always moving
doing things and I need to settle down more. By the end of this writing I have joined a
gym! Yea! I am also doing my exercises
at home with my Nintendo WII and Walk DVD.
4.
Summarize your personal experience throughout
this course. Have you developed improved
well-being? What has been
rewarding? What has been difficult? How will this experience improve your ability
to assist others?
My personal experience in the beginning was
anger, feeling alone, trying to find inner peace and trying to figure out how
to keep things together. Now, since
reading Integral Health by Elliott S.
Dacher, has brought to my mind about the spiritual teaching my spiritual leader
has taught me through the years. I now
understand why they are so important to practice. I have practiced how to
settle the mind through the Subtle Mind practices. I have learned, developed
and been rewarded with integral principles of inner development, renewed
loving-kindness, renewed virtue, and understand how to treat each person with
individuality, to be responsible for my own development, and you must seek information
from others so I can be a better mentor or helper for my clients and myself. I must
practice what I preach so I will be able to understand contemplative practices
and integral health. With the integral
health and contemplative practices I will be able to help flourish others to a
healthy life, filled with happiness, and wholeness and health. (Dacher, 2006)
Dacher, E.S. (2006). Integral
health: the path to human flourishing. Laguna Beach, Ca: Basic Health
Publications, Inc.
Have a great Summer!~Retta
